The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
Weekly News summary.
Vermont

j. II. GRANT of Butlanh has recently lost
several children from diphtheria.
DoG-PoIsoNERs are putting in their con-
temptible work again in burlington.
THE post-ofce az Pearl, Grand Isle, has
been discontinued for lack of patronage.
THE second volume Of /" Vermont in the
Rebellion " is now reported TO he ready Tor
the printer.
THE president has sent in the nomination
of Clarence III. Pitkiu TO be district attorney
for Vermont.
ORE containing twentY-nine per cent of
silver and iifty-nine per cent OF iron has
been found at Cuttingsville.
JOHN LoNDoRvILE of West Addison has
been arrested for keeping floating gin-mill
on the Vermont side of the lake.
New postmasters Jessie 2. Bailey, Groton
Pond; Eugene ID. Bordo, St. Adams Bay;
William Narramore, Bakersfield.
KENT & Roof have sold their marble
quarry and mill at South Dorset to the
Lyman Strong Company for N6O,OO.
The grandmother of Peter Clement of st.
,Johnsbury is 100 years old and Mrs.
Young will be ninety-siX next month.
ADJUTANT-GENERA PECK has presented
to Governor Ormsbee an album containing
the photographs of the state militia officers.
JOHN CoCHRANE of Arlington was iammed
against IA tree by the overturning of load
of logs and so badly injured that his life
is in danger
JEDEDIAH STARK, postmaster at South
Halifax, enjoys the exceptional distinction
of having held the office continuously for
fOrty-seven years. II
VERMoNT's centenarian, James Works of
Waterford, will become one hundred years
old December 30, 1887, if HE should live
until then He is in good condition EG.
S. w. LANDoN has been chosen a director
for Vermont by the National Educational
Association, which is to hold its meeting in
San francisco during the mduth of July.
The following patents havd been granted
to citizens of Vermont: CHARLES Tuxbury,
Windsor, device for measuring cloth; A.
Woodland, Rupert, remedy foH liver diseases.
\ WASHINGTON dispatch saEs "a report has
got abroad in Vermont that Senator Morrill,
is i'll, The fact is quite the reverse. He
has not been so vigorous within three or
four years as now
THE Vermont Construction Company of
St. Adams is in constant receipt of pro-
pOsals from abroad to put in work. One of
the latest comes from Tennessee, it being
for a bridge 800 feet long.
CLARENCE CURLEY, Temporal rily employed
as clerk in the Swauton post-dffice, was ar
rested last week for robbing the mails. He
taken to st. Abans pleaded guilty and
was held in the sum of 81 600
IL the Bennington county case of Hough-
ton rs. Vermont Mutual INSURANCE Com
pany, to recover for goods destroyed at Ben
nngton some time ago, the plaintiff gets a
verdict for the full amount-soine - 900.
ENGINEER CHARLES HASKELL, who ran the
Ticonderoga train, was caught between two
freight-cars in the Rutland yard Saturday
and so injured that death resulted in fifteen
minutes. Deceased was abouttorty years old.
REV. DIR. CANFIELD of Arlington has suf-
fered total loss of sight in one eye, the
affection coming on him instantly for no
assgnable reason. He is about seventy
years old and his eye-sight has heretofore
always been good.
DELEGATES to department encampment,
&. A. r., have been elected as follows:
Bellows Falls, H. G. II. Lewis George NJ.
Rogers; Weston, A. Rowell; Waterbury, 7.
T. Terrell; Post johnson at Mortified, II.
b. Briggs Middlebury, w. W. Martin.
A CORRESPONDENT states that Aunt
Patty Richardson of East Bethel, one of the
three widows of the revolutionary pension
erS living in this state, was not born until
February l. 1901. '-NeSSe1eger. But she
married man who " fit " in the revolution.
A PROPOSITION submitted to Receiver
Hendee by the several banks for a settle
ment OF Bradley Barlow's claims, which
that the banks would pay the face of
their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sl20,0 OO-without
interest for over two years, and each pay
costs incurred, has been rejected by the
comptroller of the currency.
WILLIAM SHELBY of Rutland became in
sane suddenly, last week and stabbed his
seven-year-old daughter in the back with a
jack-knfe. He then had a fierce struggle
with his ten-year-old son, whom Inf tIampled
on and bruised badly. Shelby isa follower
of the Salvation Army and a canvasser.
He has also served a term in the Brattle-
boro asylum as has his wife
Foul play is suspected in the death by
drowning OF Henry Currier at White River
junction some days ago He fell from the
bridge between the Junction and West
Ia1.1 n,,l ttylFr hos
been missing since the event it is thought
he may have had hand in the mans
death The affair has caused much specu-
lation throughout the region.
ZEBA HORTON of Pomfret, while walking
upon the railroad track and drawing trunk
upon a hand-sled near the Hartford station
recently, was struck by the fast express
bound north, sustaining serious injuries
His nose was cut almost off, his head bruised
and his hand broken, and he sustained Other
injuries. He is sXty-tive years old and his
physician thinks his recovery doubtful.
SEVEN of the children of George J. Hodges
of Ripton are down with dphtheria, and
one of them in serious condition
Tuesday. All have come down with 1t IN
side week, Mr.. Hodges lives almost a
the top of the mountain, a place whlcl
might be supposed to be free from the disease
There have been eleven cases in that tow
this winter, not including the Hodges chill
dren.-Midd'eblug Register.
POST commanders, Ct. A. r.. have beel
elected as follows; Bellows Falls, Barne.
Cannon; Fair Haven, William A. Smith
Windsor, r. d. Cobb; Weston, w, S. Foster
White River Junction, Joseph Qumby
Morrisvlle, Frank Kentield; Rutland, Will
lam Cronan; Brandon, d. r. Putnam Cam
bridge, j. g. Morse Waterbury, John A
Durkee; Post johnson at Northheld, c. c
Gokey Middlebury, j. H. Sargent.
JOHN GoFF who claims to belong in Yves
Hartford, VT, reported to the Boston polio
last week that he had been robbed of
pocket-bool containing 81, 100, He sold
farm at Hodgkins, Ohio, and then Starte
for his old home in Vermont Stopping OF
the way to see the sights of Boston his Goa
was cut While the robbery might hav
been committed in the manner described b.
Golf, the police regarded his story wit
incredulity,
The case Of Stevenson u.s. Royce Smith G
East SwantOn which has been pending 70
some time before Messrs. w. ID. Wilson, II
NJ. Stevens and Webster, as commissioner
has been decided by awarding the plaint
S315O5O damages. This case, il will be rC
membered, grew out of an alleged attack h
Smith on Stevenson, his hired man, duriu
which the attdr received pitchfork woun
which resulted in serious, and apparent
permanent, injury to him.
Mrs, MELvuk SMITH has won anothC
victory over Mdlvin Smith in her suit again'